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WH Official: Finding Missing Emails Too Much Work
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 11:58 am | Jason Leopold
The White House’s chief information officer said the Bush administration should not be compelled to search for millions of emails on individual computers and hard drives that may have been lost between 2003 and 2005 because it would be too expensive ... More >>
The Making of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 4:30 pm | Jason Leopold
The Iraq war, which was predicated on the existence of weapons of mass destruction, has resulted in the deaths of nearly 4,000 US troops and has cost taxpayers roughly half-a-trillion dollars. More >>
Bear Stearns’ Questionable Trading Practices
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 3:02 pm | Jason Leopold
Last March, Scott Coren and Michael Nannizzi, analysts at Bear Stearns, issued a report upgrading the stock of New Century Financial, a company that provides sub-prime mortgages to low-income homebuyers, from "underperform" to "peer-perform." More >>
Fired Attorney Details GOP Effort to 'Cage' Votes
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 7:36 pm | Jason Leopold
The Justice Department issued a directive to every US attorney in the country to find and prosecute cases of voter fraud in their states during the height of hotly contested elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006, even though evidence of such abuses ... More >>
Chaplain Called for Attack on Islam Scrutinized
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 11:03 pm | Jason Leopold
On paper, Lieutenant Commander Brian K. Waite, a United States Navy chaplain, appears to be one of the nation's foremost scholars on a wide-range of topics such as traumatology, theology, and Biblical history. More >>
"Myth" of Voter Fraud Focus of Senate Hearing
Monday, 10 March 2008, 2:36 pm | Jason Leopold
Last year, during the height of the Congressional investigation into the firings of US attorneys, David Iglesias and John McKay, two of the nine federal prosecutors who were ousted, revealed that they were pressured by Republicans to bring charges ... More >>
New Lawsuit Filed Against Defense Secretary
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 5:40 pm | Jason Leopold
An Army specialist who served two tours of duty in Iraq sued Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his supervising officer Wednesday for allegedly trying to force him to embrace fundamentalist Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused. More >>
60,000+ Iraq, Afghanistan Vets Diagnosed With PTSD
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 5:37 pm | Jason Leopold
Jonathan Schulze was awarded two Purple Hearts in 2005 after a lengthy tour of duty in Iraq. But the Marine veteran couldn't escape the war inside his head. Drugs and alcohol temporarily numbed his pain. Yet the guilt he carried around with him having ... More >>
Mukasey Refuses Contempt Prosecution Of Bush Aides
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 5:20 pm | Jason Leopold
As expected, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer congressional contempt citations against President Bush's Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and the president's former counsel, Harriet Miers, to a federal grand jury claiming that the officials ... More >>
J Leopold: Questions Remain About Rove's CIA Leak
Monday, 25 February 2008, 8:35 pm | Jason Leopold
It's been nearly five years since former White House political adviser Karl Rove sent an incriminating email to then Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley indicating that Rove had a candid conversation with a Time magazine reporter. More >>
Jason Leopold: DOJ Formal Probe Into Torture Memo
Saturday, 23 February 2008, 10:48 am | Jason Leopold
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) confirmed Friday afternoon that it has launched a formal investigation to determine whether agency attorneys provided the White House with poor legal advice when it drafted legal opinions. More >>
J. Leopold: Fired US Attorney Calls On White House
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 4:13 pm | Jason Leopold
Last week's vote in the House to hold former White House counsel Harriet Miers and President Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, in contempt for refusing to testify and turn over documents was encouraging. More >>
J. Leopold: Clinton, Obama Tout Policy Differences
Monday, 4 February 2008, 3:48 pm | Jason Leopold
The tone at Thursday night's historic Democratic presidential debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was congenial, a dramatic difference from the verbal barbs and mudslinging that marred the debate last week in South Carolina. More >>
Missing White House Emails Match Plame Time Frames
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 2:26 pm | Jason Leopold
At 8 PM on September 29, 2003, former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales received a phone call from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Gonzales received formal notification that evening that the DOJ had launched a criminal investigation into the leak of ... More >>
Leopold: CIA Tapes Destroyed As Pressure Mounted
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 2:56 pm | Jason Leopold
The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the agency's inspector general issued a classified report in the spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used on the prisoners. More >>
Military Evangelism Deeper Than First Thought
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 3:08 pm | Jason Leopold
For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior appears to be as much a part of the nine-week regimen as the vigorous physical and mental exercises ... More >>
Chertoff Concealed Role in Tape Destruction
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 9:20 am | Jason Leopold
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff advised the CIA between 2002 and 2003 that its agents had the legal authority to use techniques that included waterboarding on one of the agency's so-called "high level detainees," according to a little-known ... More >>
Leopold Reviews "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song"
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 8:49 am | Jason Leopold
One of the sad truths about the Bush administration's historic foreign policy failure, resulting in the occupation of Iraq and the numerous constitutional abuses that followed, is that it has not led to the type of artistry reminiscent of the Vietnam War era. More >>
Fired Attorneys Build Case Against Gonzales
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 9:42 am | Jason Leopold
John McKay, the former US attorney for the Western District of Washington, pieced together thousands of pages of internal Justice Department (DOJ) emails released earlier this year, reviewed public documents and pored through hundreds of pages ... More >>
Valerie Plame Still Wants to Know
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 1:25 pm | Jason Leopold
Former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson would still like to know the identity of the CIA official who passed her name to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney in the spring of 2003, and "under what circumstances." More >>
